Railway tie and rail chair.



G. H. SHANE.

RAILWAY TIE AND RAIL CHAIR.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 16, 1913.

1,082,827, Patented Dec. 30, 1913.

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GEORGE H. SHANE, OF DENVER, COLORADQ, ASSIGNOR TO THE STEEL RAILWAY TIE V AND'APPLIANCE COMPANY, OF DENVER, COLORADO, A CORPORATION OF COL0 RADO.

RAILWAY 'IIE AND RAIL CHAIR.

Specification of Letters Patent. 2

Patented Dec. 3%, 1913.

Application filed June 16, 1913. Serial No. 773,805.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE H. SHANE, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and county of Denver and State of Colorado, have invented certain new and'useful Improvements in Railway Ties and Rail Chairs; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

My invention relates to improvements in railway ties and rail chairs, and consists of certain novel features of construction, all of which will be understood by reference to the accompanying drawing.

An important feature consists in the construction of the rail chairs, each chair being composed of two members, each member being formed from a single piece of sheet metal bent on suitable lines to form downwardly extending lugs and an upwardly and inwardly extending flange, the lugs being adapted to engage the tie on opposite sides and the flange being adapted to engage the base of the rail, the two members of the chair constituting a clamping device to secure the rail firmly in place.

As illustrated in the drawing, a channelshaped metal tie is employed, the opposite edges of the tie being recessed to receive the chair members, the recesses forming shoulders which the chair members engage.

Having briefly outlined my improved construction, I will proceed to describe the same in detail, reference being made to the accompanying drawing, in which is illustrated an embodiment thereof.

In this drawing Figure 1 is a view partly in elevation and partly in section, illustrating my improved railway tie and rail chair construction. Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the same, illustrating two ties, one of the rails supported by the ties being shown partly in section. This View is indicated by the line 2-2, Fig. 1, looking in the direction of the arrow. Fig. 3 is a detail view, looking in the direction of arrow 3, Fig. 2. Fig. 4c is a perspective view of one of the rail chair members. Fig. 5 is the blank from which the member shown in Fig. 4 is formed. Fig. 6

is a detail'view of the metal tie, shown partly in section.

The same referencecharacters indicate the same parts in all the views.

Let the numeral 5 designate a metal tie, which is channel-shaped and consists of a base 6, and upwardly extending parallel sides 7, in which areformed recesses S having shoulders 9, the said recesses being open at the top to receive the rail chair members 10, each of which consists of two downwardly bent lugs 12 and an upwardly and inwardly bent flange 13. Each chair member is formed from a blank of the general character illustrated in Fig. 5, the lugs 12 being formed by bending the blank on the dotted lines 14, while the flange 13 is formed by bending the blank first on the dotted line 15 and then on the dotted line 16, the part 17 between the two dotted lines engaging the outer edge of the base of the rail. The lugs 12 are provided with perforations 18, through which bolts 19 are passed, the sides 7 of the tie being provided with perforations 20, which register with the perforations 18, to receive the fastening bolts 19.

In laying the track, the rail chair members in their completed form are placed in position in the recesses 8 of the rails, each chair member being of sufficient length to span the tie transversely and so that the lugs 12 shall closely engage the sides 7 of the tie on the outside. The bolts 19 are then put in place and tightened by the use of nuts 21. The rails are then applied to the chairs by shoving them endwise into each chair after the latter have been applied to the ties, as heretofore explained.

Attention is called to the fact that my present improvement makes it practicable to form the chair members of sheet-metal, which greatly reduces the cost and at the same time provides the necessary strength and security. These chairs may, of course,

be insulated from the ties, and this will be the practice where the construction is used in connection with electric railways where the rails are used to form a part of the circuit, and also where the construction is used in connection with railways equipped with block or other signaling systems.

While I have illustrated a channel-shaped m tal tie in the drawing and described the same herein, it must be understood that my each having a horizontal base adapted to span the tie transversely and provided with downwardly bent vertically disposed perforated end members of substantially the same width as the base of the chair and adapted to engage the opposite side walls of the tie eXteriorly, the said chair members also havlng upwardly and lnwardly bent rail-flangeengaging parts, the bases of the chair members being adapted to engage the tie and the latter being recessed at the top to closely receive the said members in the rail-flangeclamping relation and a bolt passing through the tie and the perforations of each of said downwardly bent end members.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

enoaen H. SHANE.

Witnesses:

A. J. OBRIEN, C. M. WARDBYS.

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